the worst video game designer in the world: "hey, i have a great idea. let's make this character walk slower than you but stop walking their path if you get too far ahead. so you constantly have to walk forward a bit, wait for them, and then walk forward again, and so on, hope you don't get too far"
Minecraft animals on a leash be like:
Sounds like Morrowind, except the NPCs don’t respawn (that would be nice). They just get stuck between two rocks and you can’t do anything about it so they stay there forever. You could reload the game, but you haven’t saved for two hours. (Based on actual events.)
“Oh, and you know how we made it so that the player character can’t step over ankle-high objects? I thought it was only fair to apply the same rule to npcs. In other news, meet Tim. Tim has come up with THE best multiple rock generator ever! No path shall be rock free.
Ghost of Tsushima was revolutionary merely because if you sprinted, the person you’d follow would also sprint ahead of you
What's worse is combining this with having to remain out of their line of sight and trail them as a sort of stealth thing. Looking at you, FF14.
Can they please explain the lore to me while they do this? God, I just need to know all the lore up front. Shove it right in my dumb face.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning had this thing where it felt like there was an invisible field around you that any NPC you had to follow would never enter. Thus, they were always ahead of you, but never too far or close. It almost felt like you were coaxing them forward with that aforementioned field.
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Oh, you've been playing Dragon's Dogma 2, have you?